Gold Line
A Gold Line train on the viaduct north of Arts Center station
Overview
Status	Operational
Locale	Atlanta, Georgia
Termini	Doraville (northeast) Airport (south)
Stations	18 (4 Northeast, 6 North, Five Points, 7 South)
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	MARTA rail
Operator(s)	MARTA
Rolling stock	SeeMARTA rail#Rolling stock
History
Opened	1981
Technical
Character	at grade, elevated, underground
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)standard gauge
Electrification	Third rail, 750 V DC
Route map Gold Line highlighted in goldShow interactive map Legend NE10 Doraville NE9 Chamblee NE8 Brookhaven/​Oglethorpe NE7 Lenox SR 400  Red toNorth Springs N6 Lindbergh Center Armour Yard I-85 N5 Arts Center N4 Midtown N3 North Avenue N2 Civic Center N1 Peachtree Center 0 Five Points Blue Green S1 Garnett I-20 S2 West End S3 Oakland City S4 Lakewood/​Fort McPherson S5 East Point S6 College Park South Yard & Shops I-85 S7 Airport Key Red Line Gold Line Red/Gold Blue/Green All stations are accessible This diagram: view talk edit Show route diagram

TheGold Line is arapid transit line in theMARTArail system. It operates betweenDoraville andAirport stations, running throughDoraville,Chamblee,Brookhaven,Atlanta,East Point andCollege Park.

What is now the Gold and Red Lines' shared section was originally opened on December 4, 1981, as theNorth-South Line betweenGarnett andNorth Avenue.^[1][2] On September 11, 1982, aninfill station atPeachtree Center opened, while the North-South Line was extended south by one stop toWest End station.^[1][2] On December 18 the same year, the North-South Line was extended northward toMidtown andArts Center.^[1][2] On December 15, 1984, theLakewood/​Fort McPherson,Oakland City,Lindbergh Center,Lenox, andBrookhaven (nowBrookhaven/​Oglethorpe) stations all opened, with the last two being the first stations on what would become the Gold Line branch.^[1][2]East Point station opened on August 16, 1986, followed byChamblee on December 19, 1987, and theCollege Park andAirport on June 18, 1988.^[1][2] The newest and northernmost station on the line,Doraville, opened on December 29, 1992.^[1][2]

On June 8, 1996, MARTA added anew branch of the North-South Line, with stations atBuckhead,Medical Center, andDunwoody.^[1] To distinguish the two lines, the line to Dunwoody assumed theNorth-South Rail Line name,^[3][4] while the line to Doraville became theNortheast-South Rail Line^[5] (sometimes known as theNortheast Line for short).^[3] However, both theNorth-South Line and theNortheast Line continued to be colored on maps in orange as a singleNorth-South Rail Line^[3][6] until December 2006, when the North-South Line began to be colored as red, and the Northeast Line as orange.^[7]

In October 2009, MARTA introduced a color-coded system of naming rail lines, with the Northeast Line being renamed to the Yellow Line, and the color orange falling out of use.^[8][9] The Yellow Line name would remain in use until February 2010, when, due to the "Yellow Line" name beingcontroversial among the largeAsian-American community along the line, it was renamed to the Gold Line.

Now known as the Gold Line, it shares trackage with its counterpart, the Red Line, between the Airport and just north of the Lindbergh Center.

On March 25, 2024,Andre Dickens, themayor of Atlanta, announced plans for four newinfill stations on the MARTA rail network, with one of them, Murphy Crossing, being a station on the Red and Gold Lines' shared section. Murphy Crossing will be on the west side of theAtlanta Beltline.^[10] On April 11, Dickens announced that another one of the four proposed stations will also be shared by the Red and Gold Lines: namely, Armour Yards, located near the similarly-namedArmour Yard.^[11]

The Gold Line runs above ground, at grade and below ground in various portions of its route. It begins at the northeastern terminus, Doraville station in Doraville. The nonrevenue tracks extend northeastward from the station north ofI-285. It then goes southwestward paralleling Peachtree Road in DeKalb County. Upon entering Atlanta in Buckhead, it crossesover the Red Line in the median ofGA 400 before joining the Red Line, going southwest parallelingI-85. It turns south through Midtown and enters downtown Atlanta, where it meets theBlue andGreen Lines at Five Points station. Leaving downtown, the Gold Line continues south, paralleling Lee Street and Main Street into East Point and College Park before reaching its terminus at the Airport station.

When the color-based name change was proposed, it was theYellow Line at first. However, in February 2010, the name was revised to Gold in order to address a concern among the Asian-American residents along the rail corridor.^[12] The section of the Gold Line that is not shared by the Red Line has a significant number of Asian-American residents, to whom the term "yellow" is considered racist.^[12] Despite the color name change, interestingly many MARTA system maps denoted the Gold Line with the yellow color still until 2017.

listed from northeast to south

• Gold Line overview
• Gold Line schedule

• Gold Line (MARTA)
• Airport rail links in the United States
• Railway lines opened in 1981
• Naming controversies

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